Harvard Prof. Niall Ferguson on Decline of America and Rise of a New Global Economic Order 1/3

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1. Thanks Obamunist fools! Your "stimulus" was nothing but welfare handouts to people to not work, undoing welfare reform of the 1990s.
2. go to Cuba
3. We need to tax all incomes above 5 million / year at 90% and all wealth accumulation above 100 million the same.(estate tax) No one needs to accumulate billions and billions of wealth while others are unemployed and cant pay monthly bills with min wage jobs. The lies of the rich have been unveiled for all to see. At least those with half a brain and one eye that hasn't mortgaged.
4. Agree with phillip.... 1979 was the shits. Late 1990's might be a better point as our living standards weren't pumped up by the real estate bubble economy of spending illusory gains.
5. Not likely. But in any case, this whole wealth discussion may become obsolete sooner than we think. Thanks to the Technological Singularity.
6. He should. Same goes for Europe too. There is going to be an equalising of wealth across the world. The division will be between a super rich global elite and a much poorer global working class.(In my opinion) 
7. Still stand by that opinion?
8. When was this interview first done 
9. That would be extremely strange historically if things remain stagnant for forever(at least living wise). Unless your talking about America's world dominance, but you just said standard of living, perhaps you meant relative to the rest of the world america will never be that far ahead again?
10. Your spelling and writing is atrocious.
11. @josi19831 Even though he has that irritating trait of the British Middle and Upper classes of being slightly racist, protective of wealth and privilege and convinced by his own sense of moral purpose?
12. In the second world war , the japanese were unable to admit that they were military defeted. In 1990s the , the Americans were unable to admit that they werent the richest in the world anymore. Both situations resulted in sueside missions, wery different in execution but still sueside missions.
13. Jews control all the banks and interest rates, Jews dictate policy in america. Jews pushed for 2 very expensive wars. Jews made a killing (goldman sachs) in the recession. Call them Neo-cons or Jews, they have sunk this country after only 50 years of abuse. Did i forget to mention the cost of propping up Israel? wake up america before it is too late. Ooops errr IT IS TOO LATE. Watch your rivals rise and overtake you in the next 20yrs. Watch china assert its authority in its own back yard........
14. I love his british accent.
15. @phillippatterson1 wrong, try 1979 when the USA equality of wealth was the most equal (because the rch were taxed the most).
16. to become a saving economy we need higher interest rates... end the fed!!
17. @phillippatterson1 thats the height of the bubble 
18. @09geauxtigers With all due respect, it's really the Neo Cons and most "conservatives" who have led innocent Americans into illegal wars, to die for the sake of big business and multi-national corporations. The numbers that you've mentioned are ancillary compared to the number of military bases, military expenditure, costs of wars, corporate profits, loss of human life, all at the expense of keeping the dollar as the reserve currency and maintaining the Status Quo. All empires die, my friend
19. @RepublicOfVietnam Well, to me it sounds like a pure British dialect. But I'm Danish, so I guess I can't really tell!?
20. He should stop talking with an American inflection!